Discussion: Forum Migrations to vBulletin
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Posted on: 2008-09-30 11:06 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
*Hugs warm, fuzzy, vBulletin goodness* 
Edit: 3 words, Lighthouse: spoiler plugin please.
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YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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Can I just say....
WOOHOO!
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This is certainly overdue - the purges and other forum "stuff" has led to suggestions like this for some time now. Glad to see it finally happening.
... so, freed up names... I'm assuming redname posts are still sacred (so we won't search on some of the departed devs and come up empty,) correct?
This is a great move for NCSoft going to vBulletin.
Kudos to whoever decided to actually take the plunge.
While I do not actually feel this way in the slightest, and can't for the life of me figure out how it would be so, let me still be the first one to say it (and thus annoy the other real sayers of such):
Doom.
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Great news, i've worked on vBulletin boards alot in the past and have always found it to be reliable.
Thank goodness, it's long overdue.
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This is definitely for the better.
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Thank GOD. I can't believe the amount of suck this forum software has devolved into the last couple months...
And Lighthouse...? Can we NOT get the HUGE, GIGANTIC, ENORMOUS flash header that we have now? Can't we change it to something more in line with a forum? Something that's only maybe 200 px tall at most? 
Something that's NOT FLASH?
(I mean, I have custom CSS so that I only see what I want to see (which means I've suppressed/blocked the flash header, but a lot of people have complained about the size of the flash header.)
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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While I'm glad that the forums are (finally!) getting an upgrade, I'm not glad that it's to vBulliten. They should have gone with Invision Power Board instead.
Oh well. At least UBB is being exterminated.
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Awesomesauce!, been a long time coming 
Nice move, and good choice on the location!
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I hope it'll be customized a bit more than the DR site is though. Of course my favorite part about the DR forums is that there's no flash banner. Stupid thing freezes up my remote desktop for a solid 10-15 seconds when I refresh the page.
Curious how the name purge will happen - are we re-registering on the new boards, or will we have an option to change our name somewhere? I know admins can change VB names, but didn't think users could change their own names.
I would love to grab my global as my username - makes for far less confusion
guess I'll be the one....
Looking at Dungeon Runner's page it looks like a thousand other forums I have seen, usually free to the public.
One of the things I liked about UBB is that they looked different than the standard model that I have seen everywhere. Unless you have a fantastic template to change the style, I say meh!
MEH! I say!
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Curious how the name purge will happen - are we re-registering on the new boards, or will we have an option to change our name somewhere? I know admins can change VB names, but didn't think users could change their own names.
I would love to grab my global as my username - makes for far less confusion
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I believe it'll be that they'll just be dumping forum accounts that haven't logged in in over 3 years. Nothing you have to do.
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While I'm glad that the forums are (finally!) getting an upgrade, I'm not glad that it's to vBulliten. They should have gone with Invision Power Board instead.
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They did test IPB and phpBB as well, but they didn't have the features that NCNC felt they needed.
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I think these forums look better, but if those function better cool. Will our personal stuff (sigs, avatars, address/ignore lists) be moved to the new forums?
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Curious how the name purge will happen - are we re-registering on the new boards, or will we have an option to change our name somewhere? I know admins can change VB names, but didn't think users could change their own names.
I would love to grab my global as my username - makes for far less confusion
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I believe it'll be that they'll just be dumping forum accounts that haven't logged in in over 3 years. Nothing you have to do.
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Right... but how do I change my name after the purge? They can't predict what I want my name change to be
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This is a great move for NCSoft going to vBulletin.
Kudos to whoever decided to actually take the plunge.
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Concurred. Just Get things started ASAP; it's like trying to browse through molasses right now
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I think these forums look better, but if those function better cool. Will our personal stuff (sigs, avatars, address/ignore lists) be moved to the new forums?
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You can make vBulletin forums look pretty cool, too
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You can make vBulletin forums look pretty cool, too
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Not too shabby!
And yeah, you can customize quite a bit with vBulletin.
Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."
Any upgrade to a system that's 4 years old has to be good!...RIGHT?!?!?
Right. Especially if whoever is in charge of the forums takes the time to include some of the better vBulletin plugins. Lots of neat features to be had.
Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."
Please use this thread to discuss the below announcement.
Hello Posters and Readers of the Official City of Heroes Message Forums!
We have some exciting news for the Official CoH Forums Were Upgrading! Were planning on migrating the current forums to a spiffy new vBulletin platform in the near future.
History
The current forums are a version of Ultimate Bulletin Board (UBB) software that we have been using since City of Heroes launched back in 2004. Recently, we had some issues come up with the UBB forums that required a significant amount of back end work (stuff on the server side). When we considered doing that work, we also realized that it would be a similar amount of work to make a change to a new forum software platform. When we evaluated some of the many great forum platforms out there on the market, we decided to make a change and settled on vBulletin.
The New Platform
I wont extol the virtues of vBulletin, but suffice to say they should be a nice change for us and give us new features as well as improve overall forum performance. NCsoft recently migrated the Dungeon Runners game forums to vBulletin (they were our guinea pig oink!) If you want to check out their implementation, take a look here.
Migration Process and Beta
Were still doing the back end server work to prepare for this migration. This includes<ul type="square">[*] Importing all data to the new platform yes, all your posts, private messages and everything should carry over to the new forums.[*] Optimizations to our database[*] Purging old, unnecessary threads[*] Purging old names or accounts who havent posted in over 3 years (this also frees up names that may be desirable as forum handles)[/list]We want to apologize for the recent poor performance of the current UBB forums. Part of the reason for that has been things we've been doing on the server to prepare for this migration. So, please pardon the dust while were under construction!
Our plan also includes a beta time frame. This will have the vBulletin boards (and their current import of data from the UBB forums) available to the public. This will allow everyone to check out the vBulletin version of the forums and give feedback on their implementation and get comfortable with them. While both version of the forums are available (the current UBB forums and the new beta version on vBulletin) none of your posts on vBulletin will be saved, so posting there will just be to check it out. If everything goes smoothly, we should be announcing the beta vBulletin forums for you all to look at in the near future.
When we do the transition the UBB forums will disappear and be replaced with the new vBulletin forums with all the posts and data carried right over like we were on a vBulletin platform the whole time.
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